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  • 1
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    Returns To Capital In Microenterprises : Evidence From A Field Experiment (2007)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (37 Seiten))
    Edition: Online-Ausg
    Content: Small and informal firms account for a large share of employment in developing countries. The rapid expansion of microfinance services is based on the belief that these firms have productive investment opportunities and can enjoy high returns to capital if given the opportunity. However, measuring the return to capital is complicated by unobserved factors such as entrepreneurial ability and demand shocks, which are likely to be correlated with capital stock. The authors use a randomized experiment to overcome this problem and to measure the return to capital for the average microenterprise in their sample, regardless of whether they apply for credit. They accomplish this by providing cash and equipment grants to small firms in Sri Lanka, and measuring the increase in profits arising from this exogenous (positive) shock to capital stock. After controlling for possible spillover effects, the authors find the average real return to capital to be 5.7 percent a month, substantially higher than the market interest rate. They then examine the heterogeneity of treatment effects to explore whether missing credit markets or missing insurance markets are the most likely cause of the high returns. Returns are found to vary with entrepreneurial ability and with measures of other sources of cash within the household, but not to vary with risk aversion or uncertainty
    Additional Edition: Woodruff, Christopher Returns To Capital In Microenterprises
    Language: English
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  • 2
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    Using The Global Positioning System In Household Surveys For Better Economics And Better Policy (2007)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV049074428
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (29 Seiten))
    Edition: Online-Ausg
    Content: Distance and location are important determinants of many choices that economists study. While these variables can sometimes be obtained from secondary data, economists often rely on information that is self-reported by respondents in surveys. These self-reports are used especially for the distance from households or community centers to various features such as roads, markets, schools, clinics, and other public services. There is growing evidence that self-reported distance is measured with error and that these errors are correlated with outcomes of interest. In contrast to self-reports, the Global Positioning System (GPS) can determine almost exact location (typically within 15 meters). The falling cost of GPS receivers (typically below US
    Additional Edition: McKenzie, David Using The Global Positioning System In Household Surveys For Better Economics And Better Policy
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    Migration, remittances, poverty, and human capital : conceptual and empirical challenges (2007)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV049074351
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten))
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    Content: This paper reviews common challenges faced by researchers interested in measuring the impact of migration and remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general, "welfare") as well as difficulties confronting development practitioners in converting this research into policy advice. On the analytical side, the paper discusses the proper formulation of a research question, the choice of the analytical tools, as well as the interpretation of the results in the presence of pervasive endogeneity in all decisions surrounding migration. Particular attention is given to the use of instrumental variables in migration research. On the policy side, the paper argues that the private nature of migration and remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data and proper evaluations of migration-related government policies. The paper focuses mainly on microeconomic evidence about international migration, but much of the discussion extends to other settings as well
    Additional Edition: Sasin, Marcin J Migration, remittances, poverty, and human capital
    Language: English
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    Migration And Mental Health : Evidence From A Natural Experiment (2007)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV049074486
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (31 Seiten))
    Edition: Online-Ausg
    Content: People migrate to improve their well-being, whether through an expansion of economic and social opportunities or a reduction in persecution. Yet a large literature suggests that migration can be a stressful process, with potentially negative impacts on mental health, reducing the net benefits of migration. However, to truly understand the effect of migration on mental health one must compare the mental health of migrants to what their mental health would have been had they stayed in their home country. The existing literature is not able to do this and typically settles for comparing the mental health of migrants to that of natives in the destination country, which takes no account of any pre-existing differences between these groups. This paper overcomes the selection problems affecting previous studies of the effect of migration on mental health by examining a migrant lottery program. New Zealand allows a quota of Tongans to immigrate each year with a lottery used to choose among the excess number of applicants. A unique survey conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the mental health effects of migration to be obtained by comparing the mental health of migrants who were successful applicants in the lottery to the mental health of those who applied to migrate under the quota, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery. Migration is found to lead to improvements in mental health, particularly for women and those with poor mental health in their home country
    Additional Edition: Stillman, Steven Migration And Mental Health
    Language: English
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    Soft Skills or Hard Cash? : The Impact of Training and Wage Subsidy Programs on Female Youth Employment in Jordan (2012)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048265576
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (38 p)
    Content: Throughout the Middle East, unemployment rates of educated youth have been persistently high and female labor force participation, low. This paper studies the impact of a randomized experiment in Jordan designed to assist female community college graduates find employment. One randomly chosen group of graduates was given a voucher that would pay an employer a subsidy equivalent to the minimum wage for up to 6 months if they hired the graduate; a second group was invited to attend 45 hours of employability skills training designed to provide them with the soft skills employers say graduates often lack; a third group was offered both interventions; and the fourth group forms the control group. The analysis finds that the job voucher led to a 40 percentage point increase in employment in the short-run, but that most of this employment is not formal, and that the average effect is much smaller and no longer statistically significant 4 months after the voucher period has ended. The voucher does appear to have persistent impacts outside the capital, where it almost doubles the employment rate of graduates, but this appears likely to largely reflect displacement effects. Soft-skills training has no average impact on employment, although again there is a weakly significant impact outside the capital. The authors elicit the expectations of academics and development professionals to demonstrate that these findings are novel and unexpected. The results suggest that wage subsidies can help increase employment in the short term, but are not a panacea for the problems of high urban female youth unemployment
    Additional Edition: Groh, Matthew Soft Skills or Hard Cash?
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6141
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    A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? : Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048265870
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (43 p)
    Content: Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to raising the costs of remaining informal, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in order to test which government actions work in getting informal firms to register. Firms were randomized to a control group or one of four treatment groups: the first received information about how to formalize; the second received this information and free registration costs along with the use of an accountant for a year; the third group was assigned to receive an enforcement visit from a municipal inspector; while the fourth group was assigned to have a neighboring firm receive an enforcement visit to see if enforcement has spillovers. The analysis finds zero or negative impacts of information and free cost treatments, and a significant but small increase in formalization from inspections. Estimates of the impact of actually receiving an inspection give a 21 to 27 percentage point increase in the likelihood of formalizing. The results show most informal firms will not formalize unless forced to do so, suggesting formality offers little private benefit to them. But the tax revenue benefits to the government of bringing firms of this size into the formal system more than offset the costs of inspections
    Additional Edition: De Andrade, Gustavo Henrique A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law?
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6435
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    Saami : EP04 (1996)
    New Haven, Conn : Human Relations Area Files, Inc
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    b3kat_BV039981304
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
    Content: Saami speak various dialects of the Saami language, and/or the national languages, within northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula. This file consists of 23 documents and covers the time period from 1700 to ca. 1990
    Note: Culture summary: Saami - Myrdene Anderson and Hugh Beach - 1996 -- - The Lapps - Indiana University. Graduate Program in Uralic and Asian studies ; by Eeva K. Minn - 1955 -- - The Lapps in Finland up to 1945. Vol. 1 - Toivo Immanuel Itkonen - 1984, c1948 -- - Naming among the Karesuando Lapps - Robert N. Pehrson and Ian W. Whitaker - 1952 -- - Social relations in a nomadic Lappish community - Ian Whitaker - 1955 -- - The religion of the Samke: ancient beliefs and cults of the Scandinavian and Finnish Lapps - Rafael Karsten - 1955 -- - The bilateral network of social relations in Könkämä Lapp district - Robert N. Pehrson - 1957 -- - The Lapps - Björn Collinder - 1949 -- - Coast Lapp society, I: a study of neighbourhood in Revsbotn Fjord - Robert Paine - 1957 -- - Changing Lapps: a study in culture relations in northernmost Norway - Gutorm Gjessing - 1954 -- , - Overland with the nomad Lapps - Hugo Adolf Bernatzik ; translated from the German by Vivian Ogilvie - 1938 -- - The history of Lapland: containing a geographical description, and a natural history of that country; with an account of the inhabitants, their original, religion, customs, habits, marriages, conjurations, employments, etc. - John Scheffer ; translated from the last edition in Latin and illustrated with many curious copper-cuts ; to which are added, The Travels of the King of Sweden's mathematicians into Lapland, also A Journey into Lapland, Finland, etc. written by Dr. Olof Rudbeck in the year 1701 - 1704 -- - The nomadism of the Swedish mountain Lapps - Ernst Manker ; translated from the Swedish by Robert N. Pehrson - 1953 -- - Changes in the ecological and economic bases in a coast Lappish district - Robert Paine - 1958 -- - Coast Lapp society, II: a study of economic development and social values - Robert Paine - 1965 -- - Sirma: residence and work organization in a Lappish-speaking community - Siri Lavik Dikkanen - 1965 -- - Lapp life and customs: a survey - Ornulv Vorren and Ernst Manker ; translated from the Norwegian by Kathleen McFarlane - 1962 -- - The Lapps in Finland up to 1945. Vol. 2 - Toivo Immanuel Itkonen - 1984, c1948 -- - Saami ethnoecology: resource management in Norwegian Lapland - Myrdene Anderson - 1978 -- - Herds of the tundra: a portrait of Saami reindeer pastoralism - Robert Paine - 1994 -- - Individualism in Skolt Lapp society - Pertti J. Pelto - 1962 -- , - The Skolt Lapps today - Tim Ingold - 1976 -- - The snowmobile revolution: technology and social change in the Arctic - Pertti J. Pelto - c1973 ; 1987 -- - Reindeer-herd management in transition: the case of Tuorpon Saameby in northern Sweden - by Hugh Beach - 1981
    Language: English
    Subjects: Ethnology
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    LB 24205
    Keywords: Samen
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    Author information: Anderson, Myrdene 1934-
    Author information: Bernatzik, Hugo Adolf 1897-1953
    Author information: Manker, Ernst Mauritz 1893-1972
    Author information: Ingold, Tim 1948-
    Author information: Collinder, Björn 1894-1983
    Author information: Vorren, Ørnulv 1916-
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    Labor Drops : Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises (2016)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048269120
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (60 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: The majority of enterprises in many developing countries have no paid workers. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Sri Lanka that provided wage subsidies to randomly chosen microenterprises to test whether hiring additional labor would benefit such firms. In the presence of labor market frictions, a short-term subsidy could have a lasting impact on firm employment. Using 12 rounds of surveys to track dynamics four years after the end of the subsidy, the study finds that firms increased employment during the subsidy period, but there was no lasting impact on employment, profitability, or sales. Two supplementary interventions and treatment heterogeneity suggest the lack of impact is not due to complementarities with capital or management skills, and detailed survey data help rule out a number of theoretical mechanisms that could result in sub-optimally low employment. The study concludes that the urban labor market facing microenterprises does not have large frictions that would prevent own-account workers from becoming employers
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe de Mel, Suresh Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2016
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7924
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    Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048265861
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (19 p)
    Content: Most migration surveys do not ask about the legal status of migrants due to concerns about the sensitivity of this question. List randomization is a technique that has been used in a number of other social science applications to elicit sensitive information. This paper trials this technique by adding it to surveys conducted in Ethiopia, Mexico, Morocco, and the Philippines. It shows how, in principal, this can be used both to give an estimate of the overall rate of illegal migration in the population being surveyed, as well as to determine illegal migration rates for subgroups such as more or less educated households. The results suggest that there is some useful information in this method: higher rates of illegal migration in countries where illegal migration is thought to be more prevalent and households who say they have a migrant are more likely to report having an illegal migrant. Nevertheless, some of the other findings also suggest some possible inconsistencies or noise in the conclusions obtained using this method. The authors suggest directions for future attempts to implement this approach in migration surveys
    Additional Edition: McKenzie, David Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6426
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    Short-Term Impacts of Formalization Assistance and a Bank Information Session on Business Registration and Access to Finance in Malawi (2015)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048269256
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (43 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: Despite regulatory efforts designed to make it easier for firms to formalize, informality remains extremely high among firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. In most of the region, business registration in a national registry is separate from tax registration. This paper provides initial results from an experiment in Malawi that randomly allocated firms into a control group and three treatment groups: a) a group offered assistance for costless business registration; b) a group offered assistance with costless business registration and (separate) tax registration; and c) a group offered assistance for costless business registration along with an information session at a bank that ended with the offer of business bank accounts. The study finds that all three treatments had extremely large impacts on business registration, with 75 percent of those offered assistance receiving a business registration certificate. The findings offer a cost-effective way of getting firms to formalize in this dimension. However, in common with other studies, information and assistance has a limited impact on tax registration. The paper measures the short-term impacts of formalization on financial access and usage. Business registration alone has no impact for either men or women on bank account usage, savings, or credit. However, the combination of formalization assistance and the bank information session results in significant impacts on having a business bank account, financial practices, savings, and use of complementary financial products
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Campos, Francisco Short-Term Impacts of Formalization Assistance and a Bank Information Session on Business Registration and Access to Finance in Malawi Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2015
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7183
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